Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:
An investigation by 404 Media has uncovered a major security breach at TeleMessage, an Israeli company that provides modified versions of encrypted messaging apps – most notably Signal – to US government agencies and private-sector clients for message archiving. The breach, which exposed sensitive communications, has raised urgent concerns about the security of high-level government and organizational messaging.
The issue gained public attention after a Reuters photograph captured Mike Waltz, a former National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, using a Signal-like app during a cabinet meeting. The app, TeleMessage, closely mimics Signal's interface but is designed to retain and archive messages for compliance purposes – unlike the original Signal, which is built for privacy and strict end-to-end encryption.
[...] 404 Media reports that a hacker exploited a vulnerability in TeleMessage's backend system, gaining access to archived messages from some users. Alarmingly, the breach was relatively easy: the hacker claimed it took only 15 to 20 minutes to gain access, using credentials found in intercepted data to enter the backend panel, where they could view usernames, passwords, and message content.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by RedGreen on Thursday May 08, @12:35PM (1 child)
Give a shit about security it has already been proven, like the idiots at Microsoft, they have not one single clue how to do it. Welcome to the winning America enjoy the ride.
Those people are not attacking Tesla dealerships. They are tourists showing love. I learned that on Jan. 6, 2021.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09, @05:44AM
It's just another tool to hit the other guy with. HILARIIES EMAILS!!!!LOL! Noone on the right actually givies a shit about the "security" Chchchhinaa hoax. And Sexual Haraassment!!!!LOL As long the Democrats self-immolate when they talk about it then it's fair game. This is nihilism in action folks.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by stormwyrm on Thursday May 08, @12:47PM (8 children)
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Thursday May 08, @12:54PM (2 children)
This is what I don't get either. Why? Why do they even use Signal? Or Telegram? I thought they had their own super-secure thing. I guess if they let clowns like politicians use them they wouldn't be very secret anymore, after all they seem to share them with wives, friends, brothers, mistresses and they kept losing or forgetting phones left and right. I guess that explains it all. The elected fools can't be trusted with anything. But they should have some or be able to cobble something beneath their own system for the public-fools. Something better then off-the-shelf or downloaded from Russia.
Were they not once a big user of Blackberry? If drugdealers and criminals can create their own "secure" android phones I'm sure the NSA should be able to cook something up.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by epitaxial on Thursday May 08, @02:05PM (1 child)
They don't want their comms to be subject to record keeping laws. But it's not like anyone from the administration suffers consequences when laws are broken.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09, @05:47AM
Deep State commiies! Let the free market decide what secure comms are best.
(Score: 5, Touché) by RedGreen on Thursday May 08, @01:42PM
"So why are they now using what looks by comparison amateur hour "secure messaging" from some random Israeli company instead?"
Surely a rhetorical question, amateurs use amateur solutions. It is not like the Russian Agent Orange in charge picked any of them people he has for their competence in the field. They were picked for the loyalty to the dear leader and the amount of destruction to could do to the government with their outright malice and incompetence.
Those people are not attacking Tesla dealerships. They are tourists showing love. I learned that on Jan. 6, 2021.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Thursday May 08, @04:42PM (1 child)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09, @05:49AM
3.2.1. offiicial act by the President: immune, just as the Founders and Jesus intended.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 08, @06:00PM
You will have seek out the unwritten deals made by the procurement officers. The question will answer itself
And isn't "random Israeli company" usually synonymous with spyware these days?
(Score: 2) by quietus on Thursday May 08, @06:08PM
There's a very good reason why they didn't use the NSA's or DoD's stuff: they needed maximum security [youtube.com].
(Score: 5, Touché) by Ingar on Thursday May 08, @02:45PM
Why do you need secure messaging apps if you use them to invite journalists to your secret meetings?
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